MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER, DAILY TO BE SAID AND USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THE Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed Place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it shall be otherwise determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past. And here is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth. MORNING PRAYER, DAILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. ¶ At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice some one or more of these Sentences of the Scriptures that follow. And then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences. Psalm li. 9. Dan. ix. 9, 10. O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. Jer. x. 24. Psalm vi. 1. Repent ye; for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. St. Matt. iii. 2. HEN the wicked man | against him: neither have we turneth away from his obeyed the voice of the Lord wickedness that he hath com- our God, to walk in his laws mitted, and doeth that which which he set before us. is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Ezek. xviii. 27. I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Psalm li. 3. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm li. 17. Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel ii. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. St. Luke xv. 18, 19. Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psalm cxliii. 2. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us: but, if we confess our sins, he is faith B ful and just to forgive us our A general Confession sins, and to cleanse us from all To be said of the whole Congregation after unrighteousness. 1 St. John i. 8, 9. the Minister, all kneeling. LMIGHTY and most mer DEARLY beloved breth A ciful Father; We have moveth us in sundry places to acknow- erred, and strayed from thy ledge and confess our mani- ways like lost sheep. We fold sins and wickedness; and have followed too much the that we should not dissemble devices and desires of our nor cloke them before the face own hearts. We have offendof Almighty God our heavenly ed against thy holy laws. We Father; but confess them with have left undone those things an humble, lowly, penitent, and which we ought to have done; obedient heart; to the end that And we have done those things we may obtain forgiveness of which we ought not to have the same, by his infinite good- done; And there is no health ness and mercy. And although in us. But thou, O Lord, have we ought at all times humbly mercy upon us, miserable to acknowledge our sins be- offenders. Spare thou them, fore God; yet ought we most O God, which confess their chiefly so to do, when we as- faults. Restore thou them that semble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart, and humble voice, unto of our Lord Jesus Christ, heart, grace, saying after me; are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen. ¶ The Absolution, or Remission of sins, To be pronounced by the Priest alone, standing; the people still kneeling. LMIGHTY God, the Father who desireth not the death of Then likewise he shall say, a sinner, but rather that he against us. And lead us not may turn from his wickedness, into temptation; But deliver and live; and hath given pow-us from evil: For thine is er, and commandment, to his the kingdom, The power, and Ministers, to declare and pro- the glory, For ever and ever. nounce to his people, being Amen. penitent, the Absolution and Remission of their sins:He O Lord, open thou our lips. pardoneth and absolveth all Answer. And our mouth shall them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his holy Spirit, that those things may please him, which we do at this pre sent; and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure, and holy; so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. shew forth thy praise. Priest. O God, make speed to save us. Answer. O Lord, make haste to help us. Here all standing up, the Priest shall say, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; Answer. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. The people shall answer here, and at the Priest. Praise ye the Lord. end of all other prayers, Amen. Answer. The Lord's Name be praised. T Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the used in Divine Service. UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following: except on Easter-Day, upon which another Anthem is appointed; and on the Nineteenth day of every Month it is not to be read here, but in the ordinary Course of the Psalms. VENITE, EXULTEMUS DOMINO. Psalm xcv. the Lord: let us heartily COME, let us sing unto forgive us our trespasses, As rejoice in the strength of our we forgive them that trespass salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and shew ourselves glad in him with Psalms. For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land. Ŏ come, let us worship, and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw my works. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said: It is a people that Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. T Then shall follow the Psalms in order as they are appointed. And at the end of every Psalm throughout the Year, and likewise at the end of Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, and Nunc dimittis, shall be repeated, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; Answer. As it was in the be ginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Then shall be read distinctly with an audi ble voice the First Lesson, taken out of the Old Testament, as is appointed in the Calendar, except there be proper Lessons assigned for that day: He that readeth so standing and turning himself, as he may best be heard of all such as are present. And after that, shall be said or sung, in English, the Hymn called Te Deum Laudamus, daily throughout the Year. Note, That before every Lesson the Minister shall say, Here beginneth such a Chapter, or Verse of such a Chapter, of such a Book: And after every Lesson, Here endeth the First, or the Second Lesson. TE DEUM LAUDAMUS. do err in their hearts, for the WE praise thee, O God: have not known my ways. Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest. we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee; the Father everlasting. To thee all Angels cry a |